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Mon, 16 Mar 2020 15:13:30 +0000en-UShourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.14St Stephen’s Green by Pat Liddyhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/st-stephens-green-pat-liddy/
Mon, 30 Dec 2019 22:00:03 +0000https://travelirelandmagazine.com/?p=6612One of the loveliest parks of Dublin is right in the heart of the city and is literally a place of serenity and refreshment from the surrounding busy shopping and business streets. Even in mid-winter St Stephen’s Green has a special charm and wonderment. The architecture of bare trees reveals perspectives that are not so […]

]]>One of the loveliest parks of Dublin is right in the heart of the city and is literally a place of serenity and refreshment from the surrounding busy shopping and business streets. Even in mid-winter St Stephen’s Green has a special charm and wonderment. The architecture of bare trees reveals perspectives that are not so easily perceived in the full flush of the summer.

This park is a direct link with our distant medieval past. In the 13th century, a religious community ran a nearby leper hospital dedicated to St Stephen and over time this institution gave its name to a marshy tract of land that stretched across the south-east outskirts of the old walled town. The City Council of the time designated this wild area as a common grazing ground for the citizens (only the English were citizens – the subjugated Irish could not access this privilege).

By the 17th century, the expansion of the city began to sweep up towards St Stephen’s Green, so the Council decided to expel the grazing cows in favour of the cash cow. In 1663, tracts of this land were apportioned into ninety building lots and set around a grand square. The remaining grassed space in the middle, amounting to 11 hectares (27 acres), was set aside as a public amenity. The new park was then surrounded by a stone wall and formal paths were laid out around the boundary. Each tenant of the encircling development had to pay for the planting of six sycamore trees alongside the boundary wall to ensure a sense of privacy within the park.

With the opening of the posh residential Grafton and Dawson Streets in the early 1700s, St Stephen’s Green became a very fashionable place of resort. The Beaux Walk, situated along the northern perimeter of the park, became a popular promenade to show off one’s latest fashions from London or Paris to the admiring or jealous glances from other aristocratic gentlemen and ladies of high society. The western perimeter boasted the equally elegant French Walk and it led to Leeson’s Walk and Monk’s Walk. In 1758, a lofty statue to King George ll was erected in the centre of the arrangement (it was badly damaged by a bomb in 1937 and removed!).

After the Act of Union with Great Britain came into effect in January 1801, the aristocracy and gentry gradually abandoned Dublin for London and the park went into decline. To arrest the decay the green was handed in 1814 to a body representing the local home owners. The stone wall was replaced by ornate railings and new internal landscaping was carried out but, much to the resentment of the general public, the park was solely restricted to the local resident key-holders. Sir Arthur Edward Guinness, a member of the famed Guinness brewing family, had lived in the family mansion overlooking the green. He determined to resolve this festering issue about accessibility so when the park eventually ran into debt he persuaded parliament to pass an act allowing the purchase of the park by the state. He personally paid off all the park’s debts in addition to the radical new landscaping and layout that we see today.

The main features of the redeveloped park include a 1.2-hectare (3-acre) lake served by a waterfall and stocked with ducks. This work was followed by ornate shelters, a stone bridge, fountains, formal flower beds and a Victorian-styled superintendent’s lodge. Without any formal ceremony the park reopened its gates to the general public on July 1880. The gratitude widely felt towards Guinness (by now known as Lord Ardilaun) was expressed in 1892 when a statue to him was unveiled on the western boundary opposite to the Royal College of Surgeons.

From the time Lord Ardilaun first sat on his granite pedestal many more statues and memorials have been introduced into the park and have made St Stephen’s Green a window onto Irish history particularly of the last two centuries. The Wolfe Tone statue, standing opposite to the Shelbourne Hotel, honours a doomed leader of the abortive 1798 Rebellion. Robert Emmet (situated close to Lord Ardilaun) was also executed for leading the failed revolution of 1803. The Great Famine of the 1840s is commemorated by a bronze group to the rear of Wolfe Tone and the fatal casualties of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in the Boar War are remembered by the magnificent archway forming the entrance from the top of Grafton Street. Close by this archway is a memorial bronze to another revolutionary, O’Donovan Rossa, who died in 1915. He provided an inspiration to ignite the Easter Rising of 1916 in which St Stephen’s Green played a role during its short occupation by the rebels.

Busts of writers like James Joyce and James Clarence Mangan line footpaths. Women are not forgotten either. Feminists, trade unionists and suffragettes like Anna Haslam, Louie Bennett and Helen Chevenix have their places in the green as does Constance Gore Booth, otherwise more famously known as Countess Markievicz (after her ex-husband). Markiewicz was prominent in the struggle for Irish freedom in the early 20th century and was the first woman to be elected to the British parliament. There are many other statues and memorials, too many to mention in this short article. There are plenty of explanatory signs throughout the park.

St Stephen’s Green is easily accessible by walking up to the top of Grafton Street or by taking the Luas Green Line tram. Maintained by the Office of Public Works to an extremely high standard, the park remains open during daylight hours so is obviously open for longer in the summer than in the winter.

]]>Dublin Castle by Pat Liddyhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/dublin-castle-by-pat-liddy/
Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:57:14 +0000https://travelirelandmagazine.com/?p=6150During the Middle Ages, the first thing conquerors did when they won a territory was to build a strong castle to defend their newly acquired land. From the late 12th century, when the Normans, and later the English, began their gradual annexation of Ireland they were no different. Castles, both large and small were thrown […]

]]>During the Middle Ages, the first thing conquerors did when they won a territory was to build a strong castle to defend their newly acquired land. From the late 12th century, when the Normans, and later the English, began their gradual annexation of Ireland they were no different. Castles, both large and small were thrown up all over Ireland with many still existing on the Irish landscape.

Dublin Castle was begun in 1204 on the orders of Prince John of England to house a strong garrison to protect (from the native Irish, it must be said) the English king’s newly conquered capital of Ireland and to provide an impregnable site for the storage of the taxes taken from an unwilling population. The castle was built as a square-walled enclosure with four circular corner towers and a strongly fortified gateway. The walls of the towers were over four and a half metres thick (which can still be ascertained from the one surviving south-east bastion, known as the Record Tower).

The first reaction that many visitors to Dublin Castle have today when they first enter through the gateway is a hint of puzzlement. After all, they came to see a castle so where is the castle? Well, if you are looking for a romantic medieval fortress you are nearly 340 years too late! You see, the original castle was substantially burnt to the ground after a near apocalyptic fire in 1684, I say a ‘near apocalyptic’ fire because, had it spread to the Gunpowder Tower, where it was rapidly heading, it would have not only shattered the whole castle but would have taken much of the old city with it. But instead, some quick-minded officials bravely removed part of the very gunpowder in the tower to demolish the structures connecting the tower with the burning sections of the castle and thus created a very effective fire break.

The day was saved but not the castle. When the fire was extinguished nearly half of the buildings lay in ruins. This was a period in Dublin’s history when urban regeneration was starting to take place to lift the city out of its cramped medieval past and so it was determined that a structure suitable for a noble viceroy and his staff would take the place of the former dank and dreary fortress. What they then constructed is the magnificent palace of today.

The purpose of the original castle and its 18th century successor was to provide accommodation for the Viceroy, also known as the Lord Lieutenant, the British monarch’s representative in Ireland and essentially this country’s ruler. So for over seven hundred years Ireland was governed on behalf of Britain from Dublin Castle. When the 26 counties of Ireland achieved independence in 1922 (the remaining 6 counties of the Province of Ulster becoming Northern Ireland) Dublin Castle was handed over to the new Irish Free State.

Now Dublin Castle is a State-run complex. When Ireland hosts the presidency of the European Union for six months (which currently happens every 14 years) the primary location for the ensuing EU meetings is Dublin Castle (you can see the 28 flagpoles, one for each EU nation in the Upper Courtyard).

If you have the time a guided visit around the castle is a must. You will see the State Apartments which were once the gloriously appointed 18th and 19th century rooms occupied by the Viceroy, his family, his staff and, indeed, sometimes by the reigning British monarch. You will be taken to the Throne Room, the Drawing and Dining Rooms, the bedrooms and St Patrick’s Hall, the outstanding ballroom. Today this room is used for the inauguration ceremony for every newly elected Irish President. Note that the carpet here is blue, which is the official state colour of Ireland, not green as most people imagine.

The guided tour also visits the Chapel Royal, once the church set aside for the household and staff of the castle. What comes as a surprise here is that the evident stone pillars and vaulted ceilings in the chapel, while appearing to be made of stone, are actually constructed from wood. This is to lessen the overall weight of the chapel as it stands over the culverted medieval moat of the castle. To cap the tour participants are taken underground to view uncovered parts of the ancient castle which lie about 6 to 7 metres below present surface levels. Revealed are the base of the Gunpowder Tower, a narrow postern gate, some of the original Viking wall and part of the stone City Wall which once crossed the moat. Water from the moat is allowed to enter part of this subterranean undercroft and the whole scene is highly atmospheric.

The circular gardens on the south side of the castle provide the helipad for the castle. But a thousand years ago this was a site for a small lake. Here the Vikings once parked their longboats. The lake in the Irish language was called the Dubh Linn or Dark Pool, which gave rise to the city’s modern name; Dublin!

Today, visitors can simply wander around the courtyards and gardens or take the official tour.

]]>Irish National War Memorial Gardens by Pat Liddyhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/irish-national-war-memorial-gardens-pat-liddy/
Wed, 31 Jul 2019 08:00:08 +0000https://travelirelandmagazine.com/?p=5867When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4 1914, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. The decade leading up to this cataclysmic occasion was one of political stirrings against British rule in Ireland and the stage was being set for revolution. But once ‘little Belgium’ was invaded, the preparations being made in Ireland […]

]]>When Britain declared war on Germany on August 4 1914, Ireland was part of the United Kingdom. The decade leading up to this cataclysmic occasion was one of political stirrings against British rule in Ireland and the stage was being set for revolution. But once ‘little Belgium’ was invaded, the preparations being made in Ireland for any uprising were, in the main, shelved and over the next four years over 300,000 Irishmen donned the uniform of the British Army, many in newly formed Irish divisions. After all, Home Rule for Ireland had been promised when Germany was defeated. When the war ended in November 1918, over 49,000 Irishmen had been killed in the fields of France, Flanders and Gallipoli. As the survivors trickled home throughout 1919 the older veterans found a very different Ireland than the one they had left some few years before. The War of Independence against Britain had commenced, another bloody conflict that would not end until 1921, followed by the emergence of the Irish Free State in 1922.

This did not mean that many still felt that the Irish dead of the Great War should not be suitably honoured. Beginning in 1919, plans were advanced to build a national war memorial somewhere in Dublin. A fund was launched which in the first year raised a staggering £45,000 (worth around €2.5 million today). Many discussions took place at various levels but over the next few years the Government, which generally supported the project, was in a difficult position. It was being pulled by a nationalistic dynamic which didn’t want any further political or militaristic association with Britain. In the end the building of the gardens received the go-ahead with the full support of Government and in 1929 a suitable site was made available along the banks of the River Liffey at the Longmeadows Estate in Islandbridge. To ensure a memorial of the highest standards a famous English (but with an Irish mother) landscape architect, Edwin Lutyens, was appointed to carry out the design. He was no stranger to Ireland having laid out several other gardens in the county. He was ably assisted by an Office of Public Works architect, TJ Byrne. Incidentally, Lutyens also designed the Cenotaph in London, the Thiepval Arch at the Somme, the British Embassy in Washington and the Viceroy’s Palace in New Delhi.

Work commenced in 1933 (the year Hitler came to power!) and the labour was provided equally by ex-servicemen from the Irish National Army and the British Army. To provide as much work as possible at a time of high unemployment, the use of mechanical equipment was restricted, and even granite blocks of 7 and 8 tonnes were manhandled into place with primitive tackles of poles and ropes. All was ready by July 1939, but the growing threat of another war caused a postponement of the official opening and, in fact, there would never be an official opening! The period from the 1940s up to the early 1980s saw a gradual deterioration of the condition of the Memorial Gardens, mainly caused by apathy and even antipathy towards them while Ireland was struggling to find its own identity in the modern world. Thankfully by the 1980s there was a realisation that something should be done to rehabilitate the 8-hectare site with the result that they are the largest war memorial gardens in either Ireland or Britain and are also among the most magnificent to be found anywhere.

On entering the main arena, so to speak, a visitor will see a very symmetrical design. In the centre is the War Stone, representing an altar of remembrance. On its southern side is the tall Great Cross of Sacrifice and behind it a terrace of steps with flanking text-engravings saluting the dead of both world wars. To either side of the War Stone are the fountains with stone obelisks rising from the water dishes. These represent candles. Then just beyond the fountains are oak-topped pergolas, each ending with a Bookroom, four in total.

The granite Bookrooms were designed to hold the decorated registers (eight volumes) containing the names and other details of 49,435 Irishmen killed in the First World War. These men served in the British Army. There were probably thousands of others who served with the armies of other allies and who are not recorded here. The books are a great resource for checking family genealogy and, for convenience, all the names are available digitally in one of the bookrooms. However, the Bookrooms are not generally open to the public except on special open days, when there is a constable present or by request (see below).

On the other side of each pair of Bookrooms are the lovely sunken gardens composed of concentric terraces descending to circular pools dotted with water lilies. The pergolas and terraces are entwined with a colourful abundance of roses specially chosen for the site.

The gardens themselves are set into a wonderful park landscape of tree-lined avenues and river walks. Between the central area and the River Liffey is a small temple. On the floor of this tiny building are inscribed some lines of poetry taken from the War Sonnet by Rupert Brooke who later died from sepsis on his way to Gallipoli in 1915. Take a walk down to the river itself and discover what you won’t see in the city centre; a totally freshwater river. By the time it reaches the city it is tidal and brackish.

The Irish National War Memorial, often the scene for Government commemorations and ceremonies (Queen Elizabeth II came in 2011), can be entered from Con Colbert Road (for instance, if you are coming from Kilmainham Gaol) or from the South Circular Road at the Phoenix Park end (if you are coming by car).

It’s gardens are open during daylight hours. Guided tours are available upon request. For more information, telephone: +353 1 475 7816 or email: info@heritageireland.ie.

]]>Iveagh Gardens by Pat Liddyhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/iveagh-gardens-pat-liddy-2/
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 13:52:57 +0000https://travelirelandmagazine.com/?p=5689Every city has a secret park, an oasis of green and seclusion not generally noticed by the locals and totally overlooked by tourists. In Dublin that elusive park is Iveagh Gardens. It is located behind and surrounded by Earlsfort Terrace, Hatch Street, Harcourt Street and St Stephen’s Green with almost hidden gateways leading off the […]

]]>Every city has a secret park, an oasis of green and seclusion not generally noticed by the locals and totally overlooked by tourists. In Dublin that elusive park is Iveagh Gardens. It is located behind and surrounded by Earlsfort Terrace, Hatch Street, Harcourt Street and St Stephen’s Green with almost hidden gateways leading off the first three. Only private entrances from a couple of premises on St Stephen’s Green give access to the park.

For the sake of this article we will direct you into the park from Earlsfort Terrace (named after the Baron Earlsfort, a title of the Earl of Clonmell, who we will meet later). Walk up towards the block containing the National Concert Hall and enter through the first gate of the complex. Don’t walk to the entrance of the concert hall. Rather walk between the side of this building and a large red-bricked structure all the way to the rear. Pushing a bit further on you will see a small gate opening in a stone wall directly ahead. Once you enter through here you are in the Iveagh Gardens.

You will initially encounter, on the right, a statue to Count John McCormack, Ireland’s best-known tenor, whose international career spanned the first half of the 20th century. Continue straight ahead (with the entrance behind you) until you reach a large sunken area on your right. Walk across to it and enter onto this plot of ground, either via the steps or by clambering down the tiny slope. This is a good place to ponder the history of the park. The grounds were once part of the medieval St Stephen’s Commonage, a place where the English colonists of Dublin could freely graze their sheep. Later they were known as Lesson’s Fields until a notorious judge by the name of John Scott built his mansion on nearby Harcourt Street in 1777. He bought over the fields to turn them into his gardens which he called Clonmell’s Lawns after his title, the Earl of Clonmell. His ruddy complexion earned him the name of Copper Face Jack, a title today of a famous night club situated near to his former home.

After Scott’s death the family sold the gardens in 1810 and they were opened to the public under the name of Coburg Gardens (the German ducal family of Saxe-Coburg from whence came Prince Albert, the future consort of Queen Victoria). By the 1860s the gardens had become quite derelict. Then along came Benjamin Lee Guinness, a member of the famous brewing family, who bought the property in 1862 to attach the gardens to the back of his house on St Stephen’s Green (today’s Iveagh House, the present government offices of the Department of Foreign Affairs). Employing the famed landscape designer, Ninian Niven, the gardens were fundamentally reshaped. A year later Guinness sold much of the land to the Dublin Exhibition Palace and Winter Gardens Company. This was to “provide a permanent exhibition of Irish arts and manufactures and also reading rooms, flower gardens, and a gas-lit winter garden, for public enjoyment.” It was to be modelled on the celebrated Crystal Palace of London. It was officially opened by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, on May 9, 1865.

Initially an outstanding success, the Exhibition and its successor, the National Exhibition and Portrait Gallery, eventually ran out of steam and were wound up with the gardens returning to the Guinness family. The great glass hall was dismantled but the remaining large stone building was adapted and partly rebuilt to accommodate the Royal University of Ireland in 1883. In 1908 this institution was reformed into University College Dublin (UCD) with the gardens being added on in 1939 as a gift from Rupert Guinness, 2nd Lord Iveagh. In 1991 the Government purchased the gardens and opened the 3.4-hectare site as a public park.

The Sunken Garden you may be standing in while reading this article was once the boating pond for the Guinnesses and is now an archery ground. Strangely, it is also the last resting place for an elephant which died in 1922 and had been brought for examination to the veterinary students of UCD. A stroll around the rest of the gardens will reveal several pieces of statuary and two fountains, all survivors from the Great Exhibition and the Winter Gardens. Another leftover is the impressive water cascade, an immense rockery composed of limestone, sandstone and granite gathered from every corner of Ireland. More than one thousand three hundred litres a second plunge over the rocks and into the pool below.

On the opposite or south side of the park is the rosarium featuring Ireland’s largest collection of Portland Roses. Nearby is the maze comprised of box hedging and containing a sundial in the centre. It is a miniature version of the maze at Hampton Court Palace in the UK. The east end of the park represents wilderness and woodland so the whole plan combines the best of Italian, French, English and American styles of landscaping and horticulture.

The opening hours for the Iveagh gardens are Monday – Saturday at 08.00 and Sunday and Bank Holidays at 10.00. Closing times vary with the time of the year but approximate to 15.30 from December – January, 16.00 February & November and 18.00 March – October.

]]>The GPO by Pat Liddyhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/gpo-pat-liddy/
Mon, 31 Dec 2018 09:00:34 +0000https://travelirelandmagazine.com/?p=4309Now one of Dublin’s most historic and iconic buildings, the General Post Office (GPO) might never have been where it is on O’Connell Street had not some houses collapsed there in 1796. First bid to redevelop the site, this time for a cathedral, was from the Roman Catholic church. Due to Protestant opposition this idea […]

]]>Now one of Dublin’s most historic and iconic buildings, the General Post Office (GPO) might never have been where it is on O’Connell Street had not some houses collapsed there in 1796. First bid to redevelop the site, this time for a cathedral, was from the Roman Catholic church. Due to Protestant opposition this idea was abandoned. A more favourable view was taken when the Irish Post Office sought to erect their new headquarters here.

The city’s first Postmaster was appointed in 1562 and gradually a nation-wide postal service was established. There were various locations for the Letter Office, later known as the General Post Office, before it finally settled on Sackville (now O’Connell) Street. The foundation stone was laid in 1814 and the splendid building, designed by Francis Johnston, was opened in January 1818. Fashioned in Greek Revival style with six soaring Portland stone Ionic columns, the GPO literally became the centre-piece of Dublin’s main street and the vital centre of communications, both postal and telegraphic.

Expensively restored and updated it reopened to great acclaim in March 1916 only to become smashed to ruin a mere month later. The GPO had been seized on April 24 by rebels during the Easter Rising in order to disable the telegraph office. The building was also used as their headquarters during that fateful week. Around 300 insurgents were cooped up there by the Thursday of Easter Week by which time the British Army had begun firing incendiary shells at the building. Soon uncontrollable fires swept through the whole edifice and the rebels evacuated on Friday and surrendered the next day from nearby Moore Street.

Except for the still-standing front façade, the GPO was a smouldering wreck and it would take over 12 years to rebuild it. Nearly tripled in length down Henry and Palace Streets the GPO re-opened in 1929. Now it is seen as the birthplace of Irish independence and the statue behind the central window reflects this. It represents a heroic figure from Irish mythology, Cúchulainn, who single-handedly defended his Ulster homeland against an invading army. On his plinth is an extract from the revolutionary Proclamation of Independence read outside the GPO on that Easter Monday by Pádraig Pearse, one of the doomed rebel leaders (they were later executed).

During the current Decade of Commemorations (remembering the seminal years in Ireland’s struggle for independence. 1913 to 1923), an excellent way to find out more about this turbulent period, and especially the Rising of 1916, is to visit the GPO Witness History Exhibition. Through state-of-the-art electronic touch screens, video, audio visual booths, sound and authentic artefacts – many of which previously unseen – history comes to life as attendees experience events from the perspective of both sides of the conflict and the bystanders caught in the crossfire.

The exhibition is open daily, on Monday to Saturday from 10:00 to 17:30 (last admission 16:30). For Sundays and Bank Holidays, opening hours are 12:00 to 17:30. It is closed New Year’s Day, St Patrick’s Day and Easter Sunday. For more information and to book tickets, visit here.

]]>ASADORhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/asador/
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:02:19 +0000http://travelirelandmagazine.zincdigitalmedia.com/?p=517ASADOR’ A Spanish word meaning barbecue, grill or spit. ASADOR Haddington Road opened its doors in November 2012 to great critical acclaim. The idea behind ASADOR is simple; take the best meats our fields can provide, the freshest seafood landed on our shores and cook this great Irish produce over a bespoke built 7 foot […]

]]>ASADOR’ A Spanish word meaning barbecue, grill or spit. ASADOR Haddington Road opened its doors in November 2012 to great critical acclaim. The idea behind ASADOR is simple; take the best meats our fields can provide, the freshest seafood landed on our shores and cook this great Irish produce over a bespoke built 7 foot barbecue or ‘Asador’. ASADOR was the first restaurant operation to bring premium level barbecue to the Dublin dining scene. Customers flocked to sample signature dry-aged steaks, lobster, fish and game cooked in the most ancient of ways. Guests can expect the best of old and new world wines, craft beers and of course a range of cocktails from the experienced team of mixologists – the perfect partner for premium barbecued food. ASADOR, the balance of flames, flavour and food.

1 Victoria House, Haddington Road,
Dublin 4.
01 254 5353

]]>LE BON CRUBEENhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/le-bon-crubeen/
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 15:00:48 +0000http://travelirelandmagazine.zincdigitalmedia.com/?p=466This is one of the best value restaurants in Dublin with a brasserie menu to suit all tastes. It won the Best Value Restaurant Dublin in “The Dubliner” Top 100 restaurants in 2012, having previously won the Irish Restaurant Awards’ Best Casual Dining Restaurant in Dublin in 2010. Value and quality. 81-2 Talbot Street, Dublin […]

]]>This is one of the best value restaurants in Dublin with a brasserie menu to suit all tastes. It won the Best Value Restaurant Dublin in “The Dubliner” Top 100 restaurants in 2012, having previously won the Irish Restaurant Awards’ Best Casual Dining Restaurant in Dublin in 2010. Value and quality.

81-2 Talbot Street,
Dublin 1.
01 704 1026

]]>Sin Éhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/sin-e/
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:20:07 +0000http://travelirelandmagazine.zincdigitalmedia.com/?p=415Sin É on Ormond Quay is Dublin’s original late night alternative music venue. Whether it’s bluegrass, ska, alternative rock or open mic night’s that you’re looking for, Sin É caters for a range of eclectic tastes. The staff are warm and friendly and will serve you a range of incredible craft beers and cocktails at […]

]]>Sin É on Ormond Quay is Dublin’s original late night alternative music venue. Whether it’s bluegrass, ska, alternative rock or open mic night’s that you’re looking for, Sin É caters for a range of eclectic tastes. The staff are warm and friendly and will serve you a range of incredible craft beers and cocktails at agreeable prices. If you’re looking for a great atmosphere and some of the best musicians in Dublin then Sin É is definitely the place to be.

14 – 15 Ormond Quay,
Dublin.
01 5554036 & 01 5554037

]]>The Celthttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/the-celt/
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:09:18 +0000http://travelirelandmagazine.zincdigitalmedia.com/?p=412Situated on Talbot Street in the heart of Dublin, The Celt Bar is always thronged with locals andvisitors thanks to the authentic Irish experience that is on offer there. Visitors can sample the finest Irish whiskeys, beers, ales and stouts and enjoy live traditional music seven nights a week. The Celt also offer traditional Irish […]

]]>Situated on Talbot Street in the heart of Dublin, The Celt Bar is always thronged with locals andvisitors thanks to the authentic Irish experience that is on offer there. Visitors can sample the finest Irish whiskeys, beers, ales and stouts and enjoy live traditional music seven nights a week. The Celt also offer traditional Irish food seven days a week. The classic bar menu includes beer battered haddock and traditional beef and Guinness stew. There’s no better place to go to for the full Irish experience than The Celt Bar.

81 Talbot Street,
Dublin
01 878 8655

]]>LA RESÉRVE BRASSERIEhttps://travelirelandmagazine.com/la-reserve-brasserie/
Tue, 28 Nov 2017 03:06:32 +0000http://travelirelandmagazine.zincdigitalmedia.com/?p=551La Resérve is a lively and intimate French Brasserie that serves a modern take on French classics. They focus on simple yet high quality dishes, presented with precision and faithful to true avours. Open for dinner, brunch and lunch – whether you’re looking for a light snack or an exciting evening meal, La Resérve has […]

]]>La Resérve is a lively and intimate French Brasserie that serves a modern take on French classics. They focus on simple yet high quality dishes, presented with precision and faithful to true avours. Open for dinner, brunch and lunch – whether you’re looking for a light snack or an exciting evening meal, La Resérve has something for you.